GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN, or German Brethren, a sect of Anabaptist Pietists which originated in Germany, and whose members are popularly known in the United States as "Dunkers," "Dunkards" or "Tunkers," corruptions of the German verb tunken, " to dip," in recognition of the sect's continued adherence to the practice of trine immersion. [Please select]
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Sachse, "The German Pietists of Provincial Pennsylvania, 1694-1708" (1895), and "The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, 1708-1800," 2 vols. [Please select]
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), Slovenians in, 172 Kansas, Germans in, 141; Scandinavians in, 156; Slavs in, 213 Kapp, Frederick, 129, 140 Kaskaskia, French settle, 152 Kearney, Dennis, 193 Kelpius, Johann, leader of Pietists, 69 Kendal (O. [Please select]
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This popularity, as well as the rationalistic tendency of his thinking, aroused the disfavor of the pietists, Francke and Lange, who succeeded, in 1723, in securing from King Frederick William I. [Please select]
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